Week 6, Day 5

Welcome to Week 6 of your internship with Concussion Alliance! We are so proud of everyone, all of you have been crushing it! We’re looking forward to seeing you keep it up and continue working on your projects! We hope that this curriculum load continues to suit you well.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8428523914?pwd=dXA0TkRocTE2RjJHUzJGNGx6UEJzdz09.

We have one group social activity this week! We have our weekly Social Hour on Friday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET.

Start-of-day Procedure

1. Check Slack for new messages.

2. Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack, on the week page in this portal, or on the shared Google Calendar.

3. Check the ‘day page’ for tasks & content.

4. Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources.

5. Check in with your PM on Slack.

6. Check in with your project partner on Slack .

There are Four Tasks to do today:

• Thank-you to Kam Gardner

  • Please write a note to Kam Gardner thanking her for speaking last Monday. As part of showing professionalism and respect to our speakers for taking time out of their schedules to talk to us, we try to send these thank you notes back within 2 business days of their talk. You can write your note here.

• Thank-you to Dr. Stamm

  • Please write a note to Dr. Stamm thanking her for speaking last Monday. As part of showing professionalism and respect to our speakers for taking time out of their schedules to talk to us, we try to send these thank you notes back within 2 business days of their talk. You can write your note here.

• Keep working on your projects! Start designing your webpage/graphics and/or make the edits/changes suggested in your draft review meetings

• (optional but encouraged) Look for the FINAL newsletter signup doc - being sent via Slack sometime today/this weekend and sign up for a newsletter

Curriculum for Today

We’ve provided a group of educational resources below. We’ve listed them in an order that we hope will build on your understanding of concussions as you go through them.

Unit 3: Shaken Brain (~1 hr 15 min)

• Reread/review Shaken Brain Chapter 7 (~15 min)

• Listen to these two interviews with Dr. Elizabeth Sandel (next week’s guest speaker) (~60 m)

• Part I, primarily about diagnosis: https://ronitmolko.com/podcast/the-invisible-injury-concussions-and-other-tbis/

• Part II: https://ronitmolko.com/podcast/the-prevalence-of-brain-injuries-in-sports-and-the-military/

Unit 4: Stanford Writing Course

• Stanford Writing Course Week 6: Reviews, Commentaries, and Opinion Pieces & the Publication Process

• Do this at your own pace throughout the week, each lesson is separate (~2 hrs)